Hearing about this, the king of the place sent his men, ordering Zikaria to come to him, but the saint would not budge. The king then ordered his men to saw him in half if he did not obey, and Zikaria let himself be sawed without moving!
This is an instance of great, real love, obeying God's order in a dream. And here you have God in person, who asks you to do such little things, and you cannot do it!
After finishing his mast work in Kandy, although the Primrose Hill bungalow had been rented for three months, Baba left for Calicut at 7:00 A.M. on Thursday, 5 December 1940, having stayed for only 20 days. They drove to Mannar in the Blue Bus and cars, and from there they boarded a boat to take them back to India. (Most of the men and Chatti Baba left the day before and traveled by train.) The journey was not without the usual mishaps: Near Mannar the bus got stuck in the sand; Elizabeth's car tire got punctured; it began pouring rain. "All the bedding, all the ladies, and Baba, got wet," Don recorded in his diary, "and Baba as usual — our King and Avatar — is the last to get on the ship at 11:30 P.M. carrying Elizabeth's bag for her, after four hours waiting about, seeing to everyone and everything. Baba and the ladies slept, or tried to sleep, on the ship, and Vishnu and I slept nicely in the bus."
The boat left the next morning for Dhanushkodi (India), and Baba and the women reached Ramnad by train at 3:00 P.M., where they stayed in a dak bungalow. Don and Nilu had followed in the Blue Bus and met them there. Tukaram drove Elizabeth's car and Don drove the Blue Bus with Nilu as his "cleaner" (assistant mechanic).
In Ramnad, on the 7th, Baba contacted a great saint, a 115-year-old mast named Pallukollah Baba . Baba was quite happy with this meeting and contacted the old mast several times in the course of the day. He remarked that the saint was exceptional, between the sixth and seventh planes, and referred to him as "King of all masts."
Meanwhile that day at the bungalow, Katie slipped and fell while carrying a kettle of hot tea and got burned when the hot tea spilled on her.